Joyce Hunt, a Honolulu obstetrician who also served on medical missions to the Philippines, Vietnam, Croatia and India, died Dec. 22. She was 62.

During her 15-year career as an obstetrician, Hunt delivered hundreds of babies and performed scores of surgeries on Oahu.

In 1999 Hunt was diagnosed with a brain tumor and had to give up her medical practice. She was, however, able to continue her humanitarian work, supporting medical missions and accompanying the Aloha Medical Mission to the Philippines as a photographer.

Hunt pursued photography, and the International Society of Photographers recognized her in 2004 for Outstanding Achievement in Amateur Photography. The photos were published in "Images of Aloha Medical Mission."

Hunt, born Joyce Lee Bogle on Oct. 17, 1949, in Detroit, was raised in Kailua and graduated from Kailua High School.

She married William Hunt in 1968. They moved to New York, where she took classes at Columbia University while he earned his law degree there.

The couple returned in 1972 to Hawaii, where Hunt continued her education at the University of Hawaii part time while raising her children. She earned a degree in zoology in 1978, a medical degree in 1983 from the John A. Burns School of Medicine and did her residency in obstetrics and gynecology.

She was a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a clinical instructor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Burns medical school.

Hunt is survived by husband William, daughters Malia Kakos and Makena, son Jesse, mother Carol Jacobs, sisters Linda Bogle and Christie Brann, brother Steven Bogle and two grandsons.

Services will be announced later.

In lieu of flowers, contributions are welcome in Hunt’s name to Aloha Medical Mission, 810 N. Vineyard Blvd., Honolulu 96817.